Quotable quotes

Tom Brook is a correspondent for BBC whose show “Talking Movies” shows on BBC America (available in Spokane/Coeur d’Alene on cable television and satellite). While standing outside the Eccles Theater, the auditorium at Park City High School, we strike up a conversation. We agree: The opening-night movie, “ Levity ” was a bad choice. “The screenplay was a bit naïve, wasn’t it,” Brook says. Brits always seem to be so cultured.

Thom Fitzgerald, writer-director of the film “ The Event ,” was, like most filmmakers, nervous about speaking in front of the crowd at the 1,252-seat Eccles theater. “I always get a flutter when I introduce a film,” he says. “At this altitude (6,900 feet), it lasts about 45 minutes.”

Kathleen McInnis, once chief publicist for the Seattle International Film Festival, has in recent years worked as a free-lance publicist. Publicists aren’t always allowed to express their real opinions. She’s here this year with the film “ Song for a Raggy Boy .” “I’m so glad that I can speak for a film that I really like,” she says.

Unlike other films festivals (New York, for example), the volunteers who run the screenings make sure to remind everyone that they need to turn off their cell phones before the shows begin. Some of them, actors in training no doubt, have fun while doing so. “I realized at the last showing that I did the whole speech with my fly open,” he says. “But, then, Sundance is all about exposure.”